Index to Volume 10; Number 1

Gestalt!
Volume 10; Number 1
2009
Published by
Gestalt Global Corporation and the Gestalt Training Institute of Bermuda

In This Issue:

Schema Therapy: A Gestalt-Oriented Overview

Scott H. Kellogg

ABSTRACT

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary use of schema therapy in both of its forms – schema-focused therapy and schema mode therapy.  An integrative approach that draws from the cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, gestalt, and ego-state traditions in psychotherapy, there has been an increasing use of gestalt and experiential techniques as this therapy has developed.  Originally created for patients with personality disorders and Axis I disorders that were nonresponsive to treatment, this treatment is now used for a wide array of problems.  As an example, the model for treating borderline personality disorder is presented along with a case example using schema mode therapy.  Potential areas of overlap and interaction between schema therapy and gestalt therapy are outlined, and dialogues between the two approaches are encouraged

A Response to
“Schema Therapy: A Gestalt-Oriented Overview” from the Perspective of Foundational Gestalt Therapy

Dan Bloom

ABSTRACT

This is a response to Scott Kellogg's paper on schema therapy and its use of gestalt therapy. This response provides an orienting view of foundational principles in gestalt therapy and points out a difference between a technique drive approach to psychotherapy and one based on a coherent theory of the self. This response further contrasts an intrapsychic with a phenomenological

Response to "Schema Therapy: A Gestalt-Oriented Overview"

Iris Fodor

ABSTRACT

This is a response to Scott Kellogg's paper on schema therapy and its use of gestalt therapy. It summarizes the Kellogg article from the perspective of someone who has been at the work of integrating cognitive-behavioral and gestalt therapy for many years.

A Responsive Commentary on "Schema Therapy: A Gestalt-Oriented Overview"

Philip Brownell

ABSTRACT

This is a responsive commentary to Scott Kellogg's overview of schema therapy. This response focuses on the role of consilience in psychotherapy integration, offers three kinds of integration, and identifies the integration employed by Kellogg in his adoption of gestalt therapy techniques. It closes with suggestions for possible future development of integrational bridges between these two clinical approaches.

Response of Scott Kellogg to Bloom, Fodor, and Brownell

Scott H. Kellogg

ABSTRACT

In this response Scott Kellogg restates his view that schema therapy most resembles a form of gestalt therapy popularized in the 1960s and takes issue with Bloom's, Fodor's, and Brownell's take on his article.

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Working Corner: "Determinism, Freedom, and Awareness"

Victor Daniels

ABSTRACT

The "freedom vs. determinism" controversy is a long-standing one among both philosophers and psychologists. Here a resolution to the problem is presented that is based on the simple and well-known statistical concept of "degrees of freedom." It is shown that in the larger gestalt of the situation, our consciousness and behavior are both determined in the ways that psychoanalysts and behaviorists have argued, and are free in the ways that existentialists and humanists have argued.  Gestalt therapy uses the tools of focused awareness to help people become aware of internal and external determining tendencies and thereby increase their freedom of choice in situations where formerly they experienced little or none.

Gestalt Therapy Conference

"Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now"

AAGT's 10th Biennial Conference for Gestalt Therapy
Philadelphia, PA, USA; June, 2010
(Pre-Conference Workshops June 1-2)
(Conference Beginning Evening of June 2nd and Concluding Afternoon of June 6th)